A Tribute to How I Met Your Mother: Foods We Would Walk 500 Miles to Enjoy

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How I Met Your Mother is wrapping up its nine-season run tonight when the series finale airs at 8:00 pm ET. We have a few HIMYM fans on staff here at Delish, so we just had to pay tribute to one of the greatest food-centric episodes of the show's nine-year run: When Marshall and Ted drive from New York City to Chicago to get their favorite pizza, and they're forced to listen to The Proclaimer's "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" on constant repeat in Marshall's car.

Here at Delish, we're notorious for food-obsessed habits like thinking about our next meal before we finish the one we're eating and diving into ice cream at 11 am, so you better believe we would go to great lengths for food we really love. As we prepare to say goodbye to Ted, Marshall, Lily, Robin, and Barney, we're thinking about these amazing eats that warrant an epic car trip — or even walking 500 miles — to enjoy.

Lauren H: "Las Paletas, a Mexican-style popsicle place in Nashville, TN, is amazing. I haven't been down there in a couple of years, but my aunt and uncle live basically down the street, and next time I go visit, I will be stopping there…probably multiple times if I can manage it. I don't think you can really go wrong there flavor-wise, but the chile chocolate is delicious, and they also have some more unusual flavors, like hibiscus, avocado, and cucumber with hot chiles that I am dying to try — everything is just super fresh and natural and wonderful.

Also, in Ann Arbor in MI, there are a lot of foods I miss, and picking one feels impossible, but the hippie hash at Fleetwood Diner is worth a trip, at least in my opinion. It's just a giant plate of hash browns topped with feta cheese and tons of different veggies, and is definitely a popular late-night food (or at least always was for me when I lived there), but it's just so good for some reason.

Also in Ann Arbor – colliders from Rod's Korean Diner. The concept is basically the same as a McFlurry, but made with froyo and there are so many topping/mix-in choices it will blow your mind. Famous amongst the college crowd, for sure.

General food item – biscuits and gravy. I feel like there so many places now in NYC that serve it, and maybe I just still haven't found the right ones, but whenever I see it on a menu I get really excited, order it, and then am immediately disappointed because it is just never the same as it is in the South. Worth a trip for sure to get the really good stuff."

Milagros: "If I was to go to insane lengths for a certain food I think that it would be a bacon cheese burger with a side of fries. I feel that this food item (a bacon cheese burger) can turn your day upside and put you in a good mood. It has everything I desire in a meal: meat, cheese, bread and the most important, it has bacon. A bacon cheese burger, if made right is juicy and a little greasy, crunchy from the bacon and cheesy. If I was to go on a road trip for food it would have to be a bacon cheese burger because it always puts a smile on my face after I'm done."

Zoe: "My grandma on my mom's side made the most incredible apple cake and she never used a recipe. We used to make it together every single time we saw each other, but to this day I haven't been able to get the same results as she did. It probably has something to do with the fact that she used her hands to measure and they must have been the perfect size. All I know is that the secret ingredient was supposedly orange juice, but when I pull my own batch out of the oven it always seems to be missing some other unbeknownst component. Drive, fly, bike, run — whatever the means of transportation, I would do it to get my hands on a slice of my grandma's famous apple cake."

Farrah: "If I could cross bodies of water, the dhal at a nondescript tiny restaurant in Singapore with picnic tables and the beverage option of coke, called Zam Zam.

North American: After living in Cali, I miss tacos. One of the best I have had is a very popular hole-in-the-wall in Santa Barbara, La Super Rica. It looks like it is a converted home, people line up down the block and everyone agrees that it is phenomenal. My first time there, a hairy old guy in line ahead of me turned around and proclaimed, "These are the best in the world." It was Crosby from Crosby, Stills & Nash.

When I was up in Vancouver, Canada, I missed good tacos so much but knew I was so far north that it would be a challenge to find something of equal caliber. A friend of my husband showed us this tiny truck that is parked out in the middle of a field just outside of Bellingham, Washington (yes borders are crossed to get a good taco). The menu is simple, the green sauce is killer and there is barely an utter of English. THE BEST chicken and carnitas tacos (La Super Rica rules Tacos de Bistec) and I can't for the life of me find the name of it. I crave these tacos, I dream of the green sauce and anytime I am on the west coast, even if miles away from Bellingham, I still think some how we must get there."

Linnea: "When I was in Peace Corps in Ukraine, I was staying with a host family during three months of training and they were all a little freaked out that I was vegetarian. To try to make up for the nutritional deficit they assumed I had they were constantly pushing food on me and overjoyed when they found something I loved. In the summer, my host mom and dad grew row after row of fresh strawberries in their backyard that my mom would churn with just a little bit of sugar to make a natural sorbet. Even alone, it was phenomenal. My host mom would then generously pile it on top of steaming hot quark pancakes. The hot/cold sweet/savory combination is unfairly delicious and the memory of them is wrapped up with all my memories of my host family. I would swim the Atlantic to have them just the way mama made."